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In our continuing effort promote sustainability, OSU has implemented a print tracking system called BeaverPrint throughout campus. This system provides secure print release of print jobs and tracks usage of each printer. Students can release their print job at any printer simply by swiping their OSUID card at a print release station. The process allows students to review their queued print jobs, delete incorrect print jobs and release any of the print jobs in their queue. Whatever your device, wherever you are, you can print your work to any BeaverPrint printer on campus.

FAQ

BeaverPrint provides more flexibility, allowing you to print easily from any device with an Internet connection to any public printer on campus. In addition, the secure release stations means that no one else can print on your account even if you forget to logout of a public computer.

Please see our "Credit due to malfunctions" under BeaverPrint Policies Tab for information on how to request a credit.

Yes. Log in to BeaverPrint and choose Web Print. Then click Submit a Job and choose a print queue. The Virtual Queue will go to any black and white printer in the Valley Library Info Commons and the Milne and Austin labs. The Color Queue only goes to the Valley Library color printers. Only PDF and image files can be printed via Web Print.

With Microsoft Office for Macs, you can save your document as a PDF by going to File → Save As and changing the format to PDF before saving or by going to File → Print and clicking the PDF button in the print dialog box.
Windows users can install one of several free PDF creators.

After you log in to BeaverPrint, click on Recent Print Jobs on the left side of the page to view your recent print history.

Print jobs will stay in the queue for 24 hours before they are automatically deleted. You can delete unwanted print jobs directly from the release station as well.

The release stations have a touch screen keypad where you can type your ONID username and password to release your print job.

The first time you print as a visitor, please visit the Valley Library. You will need to purchase a courtesy printing card and add money to your card before printing using BeaverPrint.

Mobile Release is a method of releasing an print job in your printing queue using a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. This method is used in place of swiping your ONID ID card or logging into a local release station. Printers that can be used with mobile release will display a QR code similar to the one shown.
To use mobile release you must first install a bar code or QR code scanning app on your smartphone or tablet. These can be found on Google Play, Apple, or Windows App stores.

At the printer use your scanning app to scan the displayed QR code.

It will read the code and display a URL that corresponds to that printer.

Open the URL in a browser and login using your ONID username and password.

You will then see a list of print jobs in your print queue.

Select the job or jobs you wish to release at that printer and click "Release".

Your print jobs will print out.

Additionally, you can also delete any unwanted print jobs by selecting them and clicking "Cancel". This will permanently delete the print job from your queue.

On the cloud print page click on the "Printers" link that appears on the left side of the window. You should see "beaverprint" printer listed as seen in the following image.

In this FAQ we cover the two options for getting print jobs into BeaverPrint using Google Cloud Print and how to manage your print job queue in Google Cloud Print.

There are two options for getting your document into Google Cloud Print. Option 1 is printing your document directly out of your browser. You might use this option if your using Google Docs, Office Online, an embedded PDF, or a web page. Option 2 is used if you want to upload a file from a local drive.

Option 1: Printing from your browser

Note: On Windows using IE, Edge, or Firefox Cloud Print is only offered for Google documents. The Chrome browser will offer cloud print for any document type or image.

Verify the print settings are correct for which pages you wish to print, number of copies, layout, color or black & white, paper size, margins and other settings

Open a browser

If you are going to print a document from cloud storage log into Google Drive, OneDrive, Box or your cloud storage provider.

Open the document or web page you wish to print

To print select Print from the File Menu, use <ctrl> P, or select the printer icon.

If your using Chrome:

In the print dialog under “Destination” click the “Change” button.

Scroll down and select beaverprint under “Google Cloud Print” heading

For other browsers (Google Docs):

Under Google Cloud Print select “beaverprint”

Verify the print settings are correct for which pages you wish to print, number of copies, orientation, duplex, color, paper size margins and other settings

Once you’re satisfied everything is correct click the “Print” button. Doing so will then queue your print job to the BeaverPrint queue.

The print job will appear in your BeaverPrint account and can be released the same as normal print jobs at any print station or swipe device configured to use the Beaver Print queue.

Option 2: How to use Cloud Print with beaverprint

In the dialog box click on "Select a file from my computer" and browse to the file you wish to print, select it and click Open.

In the Google Cloud Print dialog choose "beaverprint".

After verifying all the settings click "Print" to send your file to the beaverprint queue.

The print job will appear in your BeaverPrint account and can be released the same as any normal print job.

Managing print jobs in Google Cloud Print

Once the job is sent to Cloud Print you will see it listed under Print Jobs.

Print jobs will show one of four status (three shown in the image above):

Queued - Will appear very briefly while the job is being queued

In Progress – The print job is queued but not released

Printed – The print job was released to a printer

Error – You cancelled the print job or something else happened.

At this point it is important to note that print jobs listed here will not be cleared out of the Google Cloud Print page automatically. To remove them from from your cloud print queue you have to select each job and delete them manually by clicking the Delete button. Also, deleting print jobs in Google Print will not remove them from your BeaverPrint pending print job queue. Clearing them from you BeaverPrint job queue can only be done by releasing the job to a printer or by canceling the job at a release station or by going to the BeaverPrint web site.

The BeaverPrint print system is designed such that a user's account is only debited for pages that released to the printer. Users are not charged for unreleased pages. If a problem occurs with your print job, no monetary refunds will be given, but courtesy printing may be available.